Volume 17 , Issue 27

One Hundred Years Ago, 10 Aug 1915, Tuesday

One hundred years ago today, 10 August 1915, Tuesday, the Oklahoma City Times reported on its front page that the "Suffragists Joyous." Illinois women would receive from State Same wage scale as men. The opinion was that it would help everybody.

New York, Aug. 10 (1915) -- Equal suffragists were jubilant according to Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, president of the Illinois Equal Suffrage association, over the action of the state board of administration which decreed the day before that women employed in state institutions shall received the same pay as men where they do the same work.

Mrs. Trout was quoted as saying, "Illinois women can vote and students of political economy know no class of persons in history deprived of a voice in the government have ever received fair treatment by the government. The action of the board is economically sound. It protects the men, for where women receive the same compensation as men the temptation to replace the men with equally capable women at a lower rate of pay is removed."
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